“How do we bring back that rebellious Ilocano spirit? … Let us make the Ilocano great again. Pioneers, revolutionaries, today’s artists, scientists, the rule-breakers, the trouble makers and gamechangers, with them we shall rediscover the greatness of the Ilocano. Together let us reinvent Ilocos Norte as the nation’s hub of creativity and innovation. Encourage fearless initiatives and ambitious projects. Let us enable our precursors, our instigators, perhaps some madmen, for they will be the reagents of transformation. And then the North will be the creative hub of the nation, and our province will indeed be great again.” (End of quote)

I still have a dream that Ilocos I want have. I wish that there will be an Export Processing Zone in our province. It will generate a significant number of jobs for the people.

As we all know, our place is strategically located since it is near Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and China. The demand of our main export (electronic parts) come from these countries, US not yet included. And we have the logistic framework here, the International seaport in curimao and the International Airport in Laoag. And we have a significant number of competent manpower, which will be supplied by the four big schools in our province, not to include schools from neighboring communities. We can supply manpower, from technical to administrative to Legal services. If officials will think that EPZA would

I am glad to meet you in person Mr. Yumul. Its been a while I havn’t visited RIKNAKEM but when we met at the Dragon Fruit Festival, I promised myself to be a regular visitor AGAIN. God Bless and congrats for finally publishing your book.